15th Annual
NYS GIS Conference Highlights
Conference Statistics
Registrants: 497
Exhibitors: 27
Speaker Presentations:
44
Increase from 1998: 57.28% (181 registrants)
Increase from 1998: 17.39% (4 exhibitors)
Increase from 1998: 30.30% (10 presentations)
Conference Program Map Contest Winners
Best Cartographic Map
1st
Michael Stoogenke, The Sear-Brown Group- Eastern
Lanke Ontario Basin: Land Cover
Corresponding with Environmental Impacts
2nd
John Barge, NYS Adirondack Park Agency- Adirondack
Park Land Use and Development Plan
Map and State Land Map
Karin Verschoor, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation- The
Adirondack Forest
Preserve
Best Analytic Product
1st
David Frazier, URSGWC- GIS Modeling and Data Analysis for
Landfill Design
2nd
Nick Colas, Cayuga County Planning Department- Derecho
Storm Event- Labor Day 1998:
Cayuga County, NY (central portion)
3rd
Sheri Norton, University of Albany- GIS for Cultural
Resource Management: Predictive
Modeling of Archeological Prehistoric Site Location
in Greene County
Many thanks to the contributors of
last year's door prizes
Blue Marble Geographics
Intergraph
Niagara Mohawk
Hansen Information Technologies
Geographic Calculator
Geographic Transformer
GeoMedia
Coolers; Travel alarms
Mugs; Portfolios
15th Annual NYS
GIS Conference HighlightsConference Program
Monday, October 4, 1999
9 am Pre-conference Workshops
Workshop: GIS in Local Government
Topics:
• Techniques for getting started with GIS
• GIS funding sources
• Funding and other resources available from the NYS • Archives and Records
Administration
• Soliciting for GIS services and products
• Techniques for managing GIS consulting projects
• Keys to long term success: Firsthand experiences implementing GIS
• Open panel discussion
Speakers: Austin Fisher, Applied GIS, Inc.; Michael
Stoogenke, Sear-Brown Group; JoAnne Rydzynski, New York State Archives and
Records
Administration; Kevin Corcoran, Town of Glenville; Richard Birch,
Dutchess County; Chris Round, Town of Queensbury; Martin Weiss, Oswego
County;
Tom Sears, Steuben County; John Thomas or Carol Schmidt, City
of Rochester
Workshop: GIS for Public Safety
Moderator: Scott Sherwood and Sam Wear
GPS-Based AVL Systems for Law Enforcement in New York
State: The State of the Science and A Look at the Future,
Josh Landers, President, P6 Incorporated, Yonkers, NY.
Rochester Police Department Crime Analysis Using GIS, Lt. Michael Wood,
Rochester Police Department.
GIS for Crime Analysis, Skip Heise, ESRI, Inc., Danvers, Massachusetts.
Image Data for E911 Base Maps, David Washburn, REIS Inc.
New York City Metropolitan Area Earthquake Loss Estimation Study, Daniel O'Brien,
New York State Emergency Management Office, Albany.
11 am Exhibits Open
1:00pm Conference Opening and Welcome
1:15 pm Opening Keynote speaker: Jack Dangermond, President and Founder, ESRI
2:15 pm State of the State in GIS
Moderator: Bruce Oswald, Director,
NYGIS Coordination Program
NYSGIS Coordination Program Workgroup/Advisory Group Updates, Tom Hart, NYS
Department of State (DOS); Lee Herrington, SUNY-ESF; Sharon
Oskam, NYS
Library; Cheryl Benjamin, NYS Department of Transportation (DOT); Sam Wear, Westchester
County GIS; Bob Freeman, Committee on Open
Government; Bob Brower, Cayuga
County Planning; Bruce Jones, Eastman Kodak
State Agency Updates, Bill Johnson, NYS DOT
Year 2000 Emergency Preparedness, Tom Hart, NYS DOS
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Concurrent Sessions 1
1A: GIS in Education
Moderator: Lee Herrington, SUNY-ESF
GIS in Schools—An Overview, Steve Brown,
University of Texas at San Antonio
Examples of GIS Classroom Applications, Grades 8 – 12, David Wang,
Manhasset Public Schools
ESRI Education Solutions, Peggy Harper, ESRI Education Solutions
1B: 3D GIS--The New Dimension
Moderator: Ed Freeborn, NYSTEC
Urban Data Solutions 3D GIS,Andrew Lerner, Urban
Data Solutions
A 3D Object-oriented Spatial Data Model, Extending the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency's Vector Product Format (VPF), Kevin C. Trott, PAR
Government Systems
Corporation, Rome.
The Use of RealTime Simulation in the Design Process, Charles Hixon,
Bergmann Associates, Rochester.
The Community Planning and Simulation Project, Michael Kwartler, New School
for Social Research , New York.
1C: The Latest and Greatest in GIS:
Vendor Presentations
Moderator: Marty Goldblatt, NYSOPRS
Autodesk GIS: Bringing Information Down to Earth, Sean
Fitzpatrick, Autodesk
Web Enterprise GIS, Barry Blanchard, Intergraph Corporation
ArcInfo 8: A New GIS for the New Millennium, Skip Heise, ESRI-Boston
The Internet IS changing everything!, John McCarthy, MapInfo
5:30 pm Reception, Exhibits, and Poster Session
Poster Session
Municipality-In-A-Box, Josephine Amato,
Westchester County Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Department of Information
Technology, White
Plains, NY
Decadal Snapshots from the NY-NJ-CT Metropolitan Area Urbanization Project,
Roger Barlow, Dan Sechrist and Janet Tilley, U.S. Geological Survey;
Ann-Margaret
Esnard and Yizhao Yang, Cornell University Department of City and Regional
Planning; Rob Pirani, Regional Plan Association
The Growth and Decline of Barcelona, New York: Using GIS to Document Local History,Chris
Campbell, Leslie Cook, Jason Corrigan, Maria Dolce,
Matthew Mercurio, SUNY College at
Fredonia Interdisciplinary Studies in GIS
Visualize Westchester County GIS data in 3D, Xiaobo Cui, Geographic
Information System, Department Of Information Technology, Westchester County,
New York
School Districts and Educational Facilities Map, Paul Gisondo, Associate
Planner and Mike Selig, Program Specialist (GIS)- Westchester County
Department of
Planning
Westchester County Telecom Preliminary Network Design,Tim Gulden, Geographic
Information Systems, Department of Information Technology,
Westchester County, White
Plains, NY
Land Use and Land Cover Mapping Using DOQQs in Tompkins County, NY, Sharon
Heller, Tompkins County Information Technology Services
Town of Greenburgh, Westchester County New York Water and Sewer Project, Ana
Hiraldo, Westchester County Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), Department of
Information Technology, White Plains, NY
Virtual Hudson Estuary: A Tool for Managing the Hudson, Theresa Kennedy,
Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
Using GIS to Visualize State Government Telecommunication Network Infrastructure and
Topology,Matt Mercurio, New York State Technology
Enterprise Corporation
(NYSTEC), Rome, NY
Tracking Temporal Changes in Ground-water Contaminant Concentrations,Pete
Nimmer, EA Engineering, Newburgh, NY
GIS for Cultural Resource Management: Predictive Modeling of Archeological Prehistoric
Site Location in Greene County, New York, Sheri M.
Norton, Department of
Geography and Planning, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, and Charles
E. Vandrei, New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, New York
Census 2000 Local Address Review Project for Monroe County, Scott Sherwood, Center
for Governmental Research Inc., Rochester, NY
Lake Oscawana Watershed Project: Integrating Clearinghouse Data with Local Data, Scott
Sherwood, Center for Governmental Research Inc.,
Rochester, NY
Georeferencing, Lisa Snopkoski, Binghamton University
Visualization and Analysis of Radio Coverage for the NYS Thruway Authority,Jeff
Walton, New York State Technology Enterprise Corporation
(NYSTEC)
6:45 pm Banquet
Map Contest Awards and Door
Prize Presentation
Speaker: Dr. Don Rodbell, Assistant Professor of Geology, Union College:
Tales from the Treks: Five years of
Global Climate Change Research by Union College
students in the Andes Mountains of Peru and Ecuador.
Tuesday, October 5, 1999
7:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am Concurrent Sessions 2
2A:Enterprise GIS
NYS Office of Mental Health’s Statewide Facility
Information and Management System, John Merola, Geographic Data Link.
Expanding Enterprise GIS into Regional GIS, Joseph Jones, Nassau County
Geographic Information System, Mineola.
Delivering Enterprise-wide GIS Tools at the Long Island Rail Road, Arthur J.
Lembo, Jr., Bowne Management Systems, Inc., Mineola.
2B: Partnerships for GIS Development
Cayuga County NASA Regional Application Center, Robert
Brower, Cayuga county Planning, Auburn.
Joint Mapping/GIS Projects, Al Roy, New York State Electric and Gas
Corporation, Binghamton.
Using Spatial Information to Strengthen Business Activities, Lindi J.
Quackenbush and Paul F. Hopkins, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse.
9:20 am Concurrent Sessions 3
3A: Modeling
A Spatially-Implicit Modeling Package for Multi-Disciplinary Use on the World
Wide Web, William M. Stiteler IV and Dr. Paul F. Hopkins, SUNY
College of
Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse.
GIS: Re-engineering the Approach to Analytical Problem Solving, Lana Khitrik,
David M. Frazier and Marek Ostrowski, URS Greiner Woodward Clyde,
Buffalo.
The Monroe County Farmland Protection Plan: Using GIS and LESA to Target Farmland for
Protection and Profitability Efforts at the Municipal
Level, Ben Houston, Chris
Sciacca and John Lamb, Monroe County Department of Planning and Development, Robert
N. King, Cornell Cooperative
Extension- Monroe County
3B: Emerging Technologies
The Use of Geo-processing Tools in Support of Electronic Commerce: An Example
from PRICELINE.COM, Arthur J. Lembo, Jr., Bowne Management
Systems, Inc.,
Mineola.
Practical Implementation of a Spatial Data Warehouse, Richard Annitto, Bowne
Management Systems, Inc., Mineola.
Enterprise Workflow Reengineered with Network Centric Geospatial Technology, Sean
Fitzpatrick- Autodesk
10:35 am Break
11:00 am Concurrent Sessions 4
4A: Data
CUGIR: The Foundations of a Clearinghouse, Tom Gale and Nan Hyland,
Cornell University, Ithaca.
NYS DEM-based Terrain Modeling with ArcView 3D Analyst: What You Need to Know, David
L. Miller, SUNY College at Cortland.
Data Analysis and Visualization with GIS: Case Studies on the Geologic Project in
Southeastern California and the Environmental Project in
Brunswick, Maine, Bai
Tian, P. L. Nimmer, C. E. McLeod- EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Newburgh, C.
E. Jacobson, Iowa State University,
Ames, IA, G. B. Haxel- U.S. Geologic
Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, D. R. Sherrod- USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Hawaii
National Park, HI, R. M. TosdalU.S. Geologic Survey, Menlo Park, CA.
Advanced Floodplain Modeling/Mapping for Schoharie Creek, John Weed, Calvin Reed
& George Washburn-PAR Government Systems Corp., Howard
Pike- NYS Dept. of
Environmental Conservation
4B: Local Government
Ithaca Maps- City on the WebDoug Foster, City of Ithaca
SARA Grants for GIS Projects: Improving Your Funding Chances, JoAnne L.
Rydzynski, New York State Archives & Records Administration, Albany.
GIS Enhancements to the NYS Real Property System, Bill Godell, NYS Office of
Real Property Services, Albany.
GIS and Parks Management, Orest P. Ciolko, Wendel, Buffalo.
12:45 pm Lunch
1:45 pm Concurrent Sessions 5
5A: Remote Sensing and Data
Acquisition
GIS and Remote Sensing Lessons Learned - Labor Day Storm, Fred Howe, New
York State Technology Enterprise Corporation, Rome.
Assessing the Impact of Urban Land Use to Sediment Discharge using GIS: A Case Study of
the Cazenovia Creek Watershed, Erie County, New
York, Tao Tang, SUNY College at
Buffalo.
Airborne Sensors – Changing the Way GIS Data is Captured, Chris Barnard,
EarthData International, Branchburg, NJ
5B: Implementing Geographic
Information Systems
Selecting the Proper GIS Deployment Strategy, Larry Spraker, Applied GIS,
Inc., Schenectady.
The System at work at the Adirondack Park Agency, John Barge, New York State
Adirondack Park Agency, Ray Brook.
Nassau County’s Approach to Tax Mapping within an Enterprise GIS, Richard
P. Slutzah, Bowne Management Systems, Inc., Mineola.
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions 6
6: Local Government
Inner City Inaccessibility: Supermarkets and the Transit-Dependent in Syracuse, Joe
Grengs, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Development of a City Wide Geographic Information System, Keith McKeeve,
Geodata Link.
4:10 Conference concludes
Back to 1999 NYSGIS Conference
Highlights
15th Annual
NYS GIS Conference Highlights
Conference Statistics
Registrants: 497
Exhibitors: 27
Speaker Presentations:
44
Increase from 1998: 57.28% (181 registrants)
Increase from 1998: 17.39% (4 exhibitors)
Increase from 1998: 30.30% (10 presentations)
Conference Program Map Contest Winners
Best Cartographic Map
1st
Michael Stoogenke, The Sear-Brown Group- Eastern
Lanke Ontario Basin: Land Cover
Corresponding with Environmental Impacts
2nd
John Barge, NYS Adirondack Park Agency- Adirondack
Park Land Use and Development Plan
Map and State Land Map
Karin Verschoor, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation- The
Adirondack Forest
Preserve
Best Analytic Product
1st
David Frazier, URSGWC- GIS Modeling and Data Analysis for
Landfill Design
2nd
Nick Colas, Cayuga County Planning Department- Derecho
Storm Event- Labor Day 1998:
Cayuga County, NY (central portion)
3rd
Sheri Norton, University of Albany- GIS for Cultural
Resource Management: Predictive
Modeling of Archeological Prehistoric Site Location
in Greene County
Many thanks to the contributors of
last year's door prizes
Blue Marble Geographics
Intergraph
Niagara Mohawk
Hansen Information Technologies
Geographic Calculator
Geographic Transformer
GeoMedia
Coolers; Travel alarms
Mugs; Portfolios